(keitai-l) Re: Cmode experience

Good god what has become of this world when people start complaining that
fishing change out of their pockets is so inconvenient?  Our grandparents
would be disgusted.

cMode: now honestly, can't we think of better ways to put our skills and
intelligence to work?

-C

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Turner" <leap@gol.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:24 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Cmode experience


> Inconvenient indeed.
>
> And yet another application for the windmill I feebly tilt at:
> putting bar-code readers on mobile phones.  With a little
> stick-on label under each vending machine item,
> you could just swipe and push a button on your phone --
> MORE convenient, if anything, than fishing change out
> of your pocket..  The bar code could have not only the
> item identifier, but a locator code for the machine itself,
> so you don't need to make this an LBS.
>
> Marketing application: you could still swipe when an
> item was out of stock, to indicate "Yes, I'd pay 10
> yen more if you'd just keep 'em coming at this
> location."
>
> But while we're on the subject of wireless-enabled
> vending machines -- how about IR/bluetooth links
> to them, so you could make cut-rate calls THROUGH
> them (perhaps VoIP over the powerlline).  I.e., use
> vending machines as payphones through your
> keitai?  Vending machines being so ubiquitous here,
> they could practically be base-stations themselves.
>
> -michael
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <drew.freyman@nokia.com>
> To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:17 AM
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Cmode experience
>
>
> > Buying goods with GSM is not for production, just demostration.
> >
> > On the vending machine is a 'free dial' number which you then call, go
> > through an IVR, and then the machine is signalled to credit you, then
you
> > press the button and oila, you can buy a coke.   The same problems occur
> > with this system as with the cmode system:
> > 1.  Network costs are too high (and are not offset through significant
> > savings through elimination of the cash handling function--after all the
> > trucks still have to go around and replenish the drinks, the cash
handling
> > is just a small incremental cost of this function)
> > 2.  Convenience is not achieved
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ext Ian Morrison [mailto:ian@synapsx.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:13 PM
> > To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> > Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Cmode experience
> >
> >
> > >One thing you can't do with Cmode at this time is to purchase
> > >a Coke and charge it to the mobile phone bill - which is what
> > >the hype is often about: using the mobile phone as a purse.
> > >I guess the reason for this is security.
> >
> > One area in which the GSM world is ahead of DoCoMo?  To my recollection
> you
> > can use SMS to buy cokes (and, here in Singapore, various local brews)
> from
> > vending machines in many trials around the GSM world.  The Infocomm
> > Development Authority (IDA) is also developing standards for cross
> operator
> > billing system interfaces.
> >
> >
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